One of the primary properties I’ve managed for 15 years has taken 35-45 does every year on 2200 acres and it’s sustainable. The habitat is great. Body weights are above average. The population is above average. Antler scores are average to slightly above averagemost years, reproductive success is good, coyote numbers are through the roof, and yet this harvest is sustainable and will be indefinitely unless habitat condition degrades.
You can not offend me. So don’t worry about that.
So let me present this question to you………If the results of this strategy produces “average racks” then what is the upside to the hunter for going this route??....Should they hang their hats on the fact that their does are ten pounds heavier?? Because I can show that stock piling does on a property in today's day and age produces WAY above average racks over time for a property when the hunters on that property get to shoot the biggest deer in the area during the rut.
